Emotional Truth Emotional Truth
In a DNA-driven search for biological roots, it behooves us to be less romantic about connecting with our ancestors. If we biologize our history, we will be forever less than we co...
Feb 16, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Patricia J. Williams
Historians Target Iraq War Historians Target Iraq War
Historians and activists join forces in Texas this weekend to explore how the tools of historical analysis can bolster the case for an immediate end to the war in Iraq.
Feb 13, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Jim O’Brien
A Touch of Evil A Touch of Evil
Reviews of The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, Battle in Heaven, Blossoms of Fire and The Fallen Idol.
Feb 9, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
The Geography of Fear The Geography of Fear
Three new books explore how an absence of regulation and active policies of racial exclusion have shaped America's arid suburbs.
Feb 9, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Thomas J. Sugrue
In a Lonely Place In a Lonely Place
Elizabeth Cady Stanton's legacy as both an admirable revolutionary and a profound thinker is brought to life in Vivian Gornick's The Solitude of Self.
Feb 9, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Martha C. Nussbaum
The Color of Money The Color of Money
Four new books explore the politics, culture and racial awareness of the hip-hop generation.
Feb 9, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Greg Tate
A Letter to the American Left A Letter to the American Left
The American left is in a semi-comatose state, thanks to the striking ideological transformation wrought by its neoconservative battalions.
Feb 9, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Bernard-Henri Lévy
The Facts The Facts
In Arthur & George, Julian Barnes mixes fact and fiction, linking Sir Arthur Conan Doyle with a wrongfully convicted Victorian author.
Feb 2, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Terry Eagleton
The Race to War The Race to War
Lost Battalions tells the story of two US Army regiments of the American Expeditionary Force, the struggle to buy citizenship through the self-sacrifice of war.
Feb 2, 2006 / Books & the Arts / David Levering Lewis
Coretta Scott King Coretta Scott King
The widows of great men either gracefully retire from history's stage or take their own lonely road. Coretta Scott King had little hesitancy about carrying on her husband's work.
Feb 2, 2006 / Books & the Arts / The Editors